18 March 2009

Photographs of syphilis





From an 1881 textbook (Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis, by George Henry Fox). currently listed at eBay. The Buy-It-Now price for the book is $1,950.

Note: the eBay listing has numerous additional photos, many of which are clinical and explicit.

3 comments:

  1. Mademoiselle TitamMarch 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM

    It reminds me of this website, which has about a hundred pictures of Jules Baretta's ultra-realistic wax models of common 19th century diseases affecting skin, such as syphilis: http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sfhd/musee/image01.htm.
    Click on "image suivante" to see the images.
    Thanks for this post, just gave the spurr I needed to write about Jules Baretta.

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  2. MinnesotastanMarch 19, 2009 at 8:29 PM

    That link seems to be defective, but the site can be navigated from here -

    http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sfhd/

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  3. Mademoiselle TitamMarch 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM

    Thanks for the link. I'm glad I managed to put up that post about Baretta. Thanks!

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